Cincy Biz Bits: 5 key business stories for today

11:23 AM,
Apr. 12, 2013

Jerry Felix, left, and Bill Nadler in their Northside offices.

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EARNINGS SEASON IS UNDERWAY and today two of the nation's largest banks -- Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase -- will release their first quarter earnings reports today. The USA Today reported analysts and economists will watch loan volumes for clues into whether credit is loose enough to nurture the economy's recovery from the recession.

It wasn't long ago the nation's major banks were put on notice to have sufficient capital and other protections to prevent a failure as loan losses mounted and the economy stagnated. Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
said the stress tests ...